recharts VS apexcharts.js

Chartjs looks great, but I've never used it so can't recommend personally. I've used https://recharts.org a lot with success.

We first build the dashboard page where we present stats for relevant KPIs in cards, charts and a table. We use the React-based Recharts library for plotting our data.

Hi all, I am one of the (few) current maintainers of the relatively popular recharts charting library.

This library has more than 20K stars on GitHub and more than 1.3 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

Recharts is another React charting library that simplifies creating charts by providing a wide range of chart components out of the box. It is built on top of D3.js but abstracts away the complexities, making it easier for React developers to create interactive and visually appealing charts and graphs. Recharts leverage the power of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for rendering, allowing charts to be scalable and fit on any screen size.

Recharts is a charting library that allows you to create attractive and informative data visualizations.

The next scene I had in mind was an animated pie chart. There are so many charting libraries around that I was sure one of them would fit my needs. The pie chart below was rendered using recharts, utilizing its mount animation. To get the results, I recorded my screen like the first scene.

This is the last integration of this article, and maybe the most fun! A dashboard cannot be considered complete unless we show a chart or diagram to visually display information. For this part of the demo, we’ll use mui for the components and recharts for the graphs.

As a frontend dev who also works in UX and graphics from time to time, I find it helpful to be able to do both, looking at SVGs as both a vector graphics format and a human-readable XML. IME the workflow depends more on whether any SVG is meant to be illustrative (like art) or quantitative (like charts) or interactive and animated/mutable (like a game).

For something like this bell example (https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/bell), you can certainly hand-code it if you're really math-inclined and can estimate the formulas of curves just by looking at them, but for us mere mortals, it's easier to just draw out the curves in a graphics app then export as an SVG. And for things like the ringer (is that what you call it? the orange ball thing at the bottom of the bell that strikes the bell to make the sound), being able to visually draw it on a canvas, change its size, drag it around and play with its colors and dimensions, etc. is really helpful. Figma is fine for simpler graphics, but it's really more of a UX tool than a graphic design tool, and Illustrator is a lot more powerful. Inkscape is a FOSS option.

In other circumstances, though, manipulating the SVG XML directly is also very helpful. Let's say you want to programatically generate a bar chart. If you have a big dataset, it's going to take a designer forever to manually plot them and change them every time the data changes. But it's easy for a dev to use Javascript (or any language) to draw each rectangle, programmatically adjust their heights and colors based on the data, add tooltips, etc. And that way you can dynamically update them in real-time whenever the data changes (like if the user selects a different date range, or new events come in). A lot of this is made easier by libs like https://frappe.io/charts or https://apexcharts.com. But before you take that approach, you should know that for complex charts, sometimes Canvas rendering (or just generating graphics in the backend) can be more performant than SVG.

SVGs can also be animated and interactive, not just with CSS transitions but by directly manipulating the XML geometries, like http://snapsvg.io/demos/ or https://www.svgator.com/ or https://codepen.io/collection/XpwMLO/. This is fine for product pages and such, but for really graphics-intensive apps (full games) it's probably slower than other rendering pipelines. (Not my specialty, won't speculate too much.)

TLDR Drawing them in a graphics app is usually easier for the designers, but the XML can be programmatically manipulated afterward to great effect.

ApexCharts is a modern charting library that helps developers to create beautiful and interactive visualizations for web pages. It is an open-source project licensed under MIT and is free to use in commercial applications.

tradingview.com for the chart... but also apexcharts.com is a decent open source library whereas TV is not open source

ApexCharts: https://apexcharts.com/ Easy integration with Vue.

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we're using https://apexcharts.com/ in production and are reasonably satisfied with it